Palestinians at the UN - Deadlock is oxygen for extremists

LESS than two weeks ago America and its friends — including Ireland — marked the tenth anniversary of the worst terrorist attack that country has faced.

Ten years after that outrageous, utterly unjustifiable attack America still pursues a policy that, to those with eyes to see, fed the extremism that led to American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 being crashed into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.

Tomorrow, if Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas asks the UN Security Council to recognise a Palestinian state, America will oppose that legitimate aspiration and use its veto to block it, even if a majority of members support the proposal. At the same time they will insist that they are champions of democracy.